Post by Reese on Aug 12, 2014 23:04:09 GMT -5
This year, the month of August brings oat harvest and vacation time for the family. For the past few years, we have hired a custom harvester to cut and combine our oats. His name is Phil. We had him stop by the day before leaving for vacation to show him the fields he’ll be working in. He will have it all cut and hopefully by the time we come back, it will be ready to combine. His wife came with to drop off the NH HW365.
Most years we big bale 80 to 90 bales of straw and little bale the rest. It is used in the dairy barn and some in the beef shed. All of the oats is stored in a bin on the farm. It is mixed with corn and soybeans for feed for the cattle. We will sell any extra which doesn’t fit in the bin.
Once the straw is off, one of the manure piles will be hauled out onto the stubble. Afterwards, the plow will be pulled out to turn under the manure. It will sit till spring for planting time.
Getting the header on.
Waiting till tomorrow to start.
After vacation, Phil returned with his 6088 to start combining.
Out in the field.
Unloading another hopper full. The oats is running pretty decent so far.
Last of the loads going for the day.
Our full time employee Will climbed to the top of the silo for this one.
Working on filling wagons with little bales. The Farmall 95 is a good fit for the baler.
IH 986 and rake building up some windrows for the big baler.
Bales getting unloaded in the back of the barn.
More loads coming in.
Getting the big bales gathered up.
Storing the big bales away.
With the oat harvest out of the way, we can switch to getting some of the third crop up. It’s not the worst, but it could have been a lot better. Once that’s done, it will be time to get things checked over and setup for chopping corn silage.
Thanks for looking. Questions and comments welcome.
Most years we big bale 80 to 90 bales of straw and little bale the rest. It is used in the dairy barn and some in the beef shed. All of the oats is stored in a bin on the farm. It is mixed with corn and soybeans for feed for the cattle. We will sell any extra which doesn’t fit in the bin.
Once the straw is off, one of the manure piles will be hauled out onto the stubble. Afterwards, the plow will be pulled out to turn under the manure. It will sit till spring for planting time.
Getting the header on.
Waiting till tomorrow to start.
After vacation, Phil returned with his 6088 to start combining.
Out in the field.
Unloading another hopper full. The oats is running pretty decent so far.
Last of the loads going for the day.
Our full time employee Will climbed to the top of the silo for this one.
Working on filling wagons with little bales. The Farmall 95 is a good fit for the baler.
IH 986 and rake building up some windrows for the big baler.
Bales getting unloaded in the back of the barn.
More loads coming in.
Getting the big bales gathered up.
Storing the big bales away.
With the oat harvest out of the way, we can switch to getting some of the third crop up. It’s not the worst, but it could have been a lot better. Once that’s done, it will be time to get things checked over and setup for chopping corn silage.
Thanks for looking. Questions and comments welcome.